Luis Angel Landín’s Puskas Award-Winning Goal Against Monarchy of Morelia in 2009

In the distant 2009, he is now famous Puskas Award. Since then, this prize “Frenc Puskas” has been in charge of selection for the best football goal of the yeardecided by the vote of millions of fans around the world.

In that same year, an old acquaintance from Liga MX, who was active at that time for the Celeste de la Cruz Azu Machinel, Luis Angel Landínhe scored the goal of his life against a Monarchy of Morelia, at the Clausura 2009.

How was Landín’s brilliant goal?

Regular season game, played on April 11, 2009 at Morelos Stadium, face Blue Cross y monarchs, in its second half. At minute 52, it remained at 0-0 without emotions. However, everything would change when the world champion, Cesar Villaluz would include Edgar Andrews.

The Machine footballer moved the ball to the right end and crossed until he finally found a place to place a center at mid-height. Then Luis Ángel Landín made a completely unusual scorpion, getting the first one name of a Mexican soccer player who received that award, something he would do again Marco Fabian years later, also with Cruz Azul. This match will end in 1-1.

In that year in which the awards were held, the football player was already active for the Houston Dynamo of the MLS, and he competed against great football monsters like Emmanuel Adebayor, Michael Essien, Andrés Iniesta, Cristiano Ronaldo and Fernando Torres.

Despite this historic designation, it was Cristiano Ronaldo who won the award, when he was playing for Manchester United. A brilliant goal from more than 40 meters in the Champions League quarter-final against Porto gave him the first award of its kind.

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